Art Assets and Tracking

Look and Feel

We're going for a Sci-Fi look where the feel is somewhere between World of Warcraft and Starcraft, a bright upbeat mood. For the color pallet something like Age of Empires III, bright base colors with tasteful splashes of color that highlight buildings and units. Our buildings should represent free floating entities in space that are connected via a transportation system. This is similar to how Bio Shock represents Rapture, underwater buildings connected via tubes, but ours will be in space and not in the 1920's.

Example Age of Empires III with Tasteful Color Splashes

Requirements

Models

Models should follow the look and feel specifications. Models should be able to be placed or combined as in a tile based system.

Complexity

Models should be complex, but still keep a low polygon count. Model complexity and polygon limits will be further defined as we do more extensive testing of our 3D Engine.

Textures

All textures should be included in the model file. If they can't be extracted form the SketchUp file then they will also need to be included as *.png files. Textures file dimension should in power of twos( 2x2,4x4,16x16,32x32,64x64, etc) and should be kept as small as reasonably possible.

Submission

Models will be uploaded to the Google Warehouse. Depending on our needs we may also need to have the models uploaded to a folder on our SVN repository.

Colony Simulation

Models

Asset Name	Description	Artist Assigned	Status	Priority
Command Center	This is the building that will begin the construction of the colony. It is the first thing that the player is required to place.		Concept Art Needed	High
Low Quality Residential Building	This is the low quality living quarters of the colony. As opposed to the high quality residential building, the focus on its design is to efficiently fit as many of the populace inside as possible. It could be equated to the "projects" of the space colony. There are tier 1 and tier 2 version.		Concept Art needed	High
High Quality Residential Building	This is the high quality living quarters of the colony. It's focus on the comfort the populace who live in it. Less people live here, but they are happier and live in luxury. There are tier 1 and tier 2 versions.		Concept Art Needed	High
Mining Building	This building is placed on top of a resource square in order to harvest it. This is not tiered, meaning there is only one version.		Concept Art Needed	High
Resource Models	These are going to be used to represent the three different resources available to harvest on the map. What they are exactly, and how they look has been undecided. Things such as small gas nebulae, small chunks of rock, or small chunks of ice would all work. The only thing necessary is that there are three different kinds.		Google Model in use, though a lower polygon model would be helpful.	Low
Commercial Buildings	These are buildings that the populace will travel to in order to buy goods and services. This category includes things such as shops, malls, and places for the populace to buy food, such as farms. These will take in resources to create their goods. If that could be worked into the designs, that would be good, but it does not need to be. There exists three of these buildings in tier 1 and three of these buildings in tier 2.		Concept Art Needed	High
Factory Buildings	These buildings refine the resources into higher tier levels. For example a tier 0 (raw) resource would be refined into a tier 1 (basic) resource. Ideas for this were refinery and industrial type buildings. There is one of these resources at tier 1 and one of these at tier 2.		Concept Art Needed	High
Entertainment Building	The purpose of this building is to increase the happiness of the populace. These buildings include things like arcades and amusement parks. There are two of these in tier 1 and two of these in tier 2, though a texture swap in between tiers would be fine.		Concept Art Needed	High
Resource Transport Rings	A series of rings which the transport ships will pass through. These ships will move the resources throughout the colony. Models will be needed for straight sections, elbow joints, T joints, and four way intersections.		Google Model in use at the moment	High
Resource Transport Ship	The ship which carries resources from one building to another through the tubes. Different models for each resource would be nice, though a simple color swap would be just as effective.		Google Model in use at the moment	Medium
Space "Roads"	This is the transport system for the populace. This transports people around the colony. The term road is used loosely since a system of transparent tubes would work just as well. Models would be needed straight sections, elbow joints, T joints, and four way intersections. Even something as simple as a new texture on the Resource Transport Rings would work.		Concept Art Needed	Medium
Space "Road" Transport Unit	This is what carries the populace throughout the transport tubes. This could be things like a ship, "space cars", or even people moving with jetpacks. This is purely a visual thing for the player so any of these would work. If need be, a texture swap could be done on the Resource Ships to make this model.		Concept Art Needed	Medium
Reward Buildings	These buildings are rewards given to players to give them a sense of achievement and advancement. They are purely visual rewards, and at the moment, none of them have been decided. The can be anything that is interesting and fun, though they should be unique so that the player feels that they are something special when they are unlocked.		Concept Art Needed	Low